The effects of various forest uses on small mammal communities in Sarawak, Malaysia

Nakagawa, Michiko; Miguchi, Hideo; Nakashizuka, Tohru

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2006.05.006

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“…Civets may be responding to significant prey densities in Acacia forests, although we did not measure this community. Nakagawa et al (2006) found rodent populations minimally impacted by forest management in a multi-use plantation in Sarawak.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Tropical vertebrate species respond in various ways to forest disturbance, most by declining, but others by increasing in abundance (Johns, 1992;Stuebing, 1994). Nakagawa et al (2006) found terrestrial small mammals communities in harvested and plantation forests of Sarawak, Malaysia, to be little impacted by forestry activity. Large mammal species may decline but not dissapear following disturbance.…”

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confidence: 93%

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The importance of secondary forest blocks for terrestrial mammals within an Acacia/secondary forest matrix in Sarawak, Malaysia

McShea

Stewart

Peterson

et al. 2009

Biological Conservation

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

The importance of secondary forest blocks for terrestrial mammals within an Acacia/secondary forest matrix in Sarawak, Malaysia

McShea

Stewart

Peterson

et al. 2009

Biological Conservation

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“…In pine afforested areas of Yunnan, China, small mammal richness and diversity were higher in younger plantations (less than 15 years old) than in older ones (Men et al 2006). Small mammal communities were not clearly differentiated among forest types in Malaysia (primeval forest, fallows and rubber plantation) except for new fallows where human-associated rats emerged (Nakagawa et al 2006). Actually, these differences in species richness and diversity response patterns are likely to be the result of speciesspecific responses to forest vegetation-induced changes after disturbance and along succession gradients, as demonstrated by many authors (Etcheverry et al 2005, Fisher and Wilkinson 2005, Men et al 2006, Robitaille and Linley 2006, Scott et al 2006.…”

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Small-mammal assemblage response to deforestation and afforestation in central China

Raoul¹,

Pleydell²,

Quéré³

et al. 2008

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Deforestation is a major environmental issue driving the loss of animal and plant species. Afforestation has recently been promoted to conserve and restore Chinese forest ecosystems. We investigated the distribution of small-mammal assemblages in an area where forest and associated deforestation habitats dominate and in an agricultural area where afforestation is ongoing in the Loess Plateau of southern Ningxia Autonomous Region, P.R. China. Multiple trapping was used. Assemblages were defined based on the multinomial probability distribution and information theory. Species turnover between assemblages of deforested and afforested habitats was high, although no clear effect on species richness was observed. The two assemblages described along the deforestation gradient displayed higher diversity, whereas diversity was lower in assemblages identified in afforested habitats where Cricetulus longicaudatus, known agricultural pest in various areas of China, clearly dominated. The threatened Sorex cylindricauda and Eozapus setchuanus were recorded along the deforestation gradient but not in plantations. Therefore, habitats present along a deforestation succession in this part of Ningxia sustain a high diversity of small mammals and include species of conservation concern. At the present stage of its process (maximum 15 years), afforestation in southern Ningxia favours the dominance of an agricultural pest.

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“…Most tree species usually interact with multiple animals during these processes, e.g., pollinators, seed predators and seed dispersers; therefore, reproductive success can depend greatly on interactions with these animals (Curran and Webb 2000;Kitamura et al 2004;Momose et al 1998;Nakagawa et al 2006;Yasuda et al 2005).…”

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Neighborhood aggregation effect and its effective scale on reproductive success in Shorea laxa (Dipterocarpaceae)

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This study investigated whether reproductive success is affected by the intensity of neighborhood aggregation of adults in the tropical tree Shorea laxa. We focused on three processes in the early reproductive stages: seed maturation; seed survival (categorizing sound seed, predation by insects and predation by vertebrates) in pre-seed dispersal; and seedling survival in the post-seed dispersal stage. We used a model selection procedure to examine the aggregation effect on reproductive success. The intensity of neighborhood aggregation was represented by the neighborhood aggregation index, which contains the adult number within a specific radius and the distances to neighboring adults (weight of proximity). Then, we evaluated the models exhaustively with the aggregation index having different scales (radius and weight of proximity) to assess the scale on which aggregation had significant effects. In particular, the best effective neighborhood scale, which is defined as the scale of the index in the model with minimum Akaike information criterion, was examined to compare those scales among processes. We found that the probability of seed maturation, seed survival and seedling survival decreased with the aggregation index at specific scales. This suggests that aggregation influenced reproductive success negatively in both the pre- and post-seed dispersal stages. However, the selected radii differed among processes: >200 and 130 m in pre- and post-seed dispersal stages, respectively. The selected weight of proximity also seemed to have a weak effect on all processes and was not different among processes.

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The effects of various forest uses on small mammal communities in Sarawak, Malaysia

Cited by 44 publications

References 36 publications

The importance of secondary forest blocks for terrestrial mammals within an Acacia/secondary forest matrix in Sarawak, Malaysia

The importance of secondary forest blocks for terrestrial mammals within an Acacia/secondary forest matrix in Sarawak, Malaysia

Small-mammal assemblage response to deforestation and afforestation in central China

Neighborhood aggregation effect and its effective scale on reproductive success in Shorea laxa (Dipterocarpaceae)

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